Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
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The San Andreas Fault in the Modern Mind
Percy delivering the 18th Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. Three items: First a filmed record of the lecture Second, an amended transcript of the lecture Third, the very excellent Patrick Samway, SJ overviews Percy’s lifelong concern with science. By the way, the photo below was taken by artist George Rodrigue: check out Wendy’s blog (George’s widow) and her discussion…
Paul Bloom on The War on Reason
Paul Bloom in The Atlantic For the most part, I’m on the side of the neuroscientists and social psychologists—no surprise, given that I’m a psychologist myself. Work in fields such as computational cognitive science, behavioral genetics, and social neuroscience has yielded great insights about human nature. I do worry, though, that many of my colleagues…
Dennett: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers
This was supposedly published on the 12th . . . now the 14th. I have two long reviews in this collection, items 48 and 104. a companion to michael oakeshottCognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceconsciousnessDaniel DennettEvolutionary Psychologyphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindreligion and science
The Walker Percy Weekend
Now this is what I call a “conference“: from what I know of Percy he’d have approved. philosophical literaturePhilosophyreligion and scienceWalker PercyWalker Percy Weekend
Oakeshott on Science as a Mode of Experience
Here is the intro to Byron’s essay from the Zygon symposium.. The obvious outcome of our total experience is that the world can be handled according to many systems of ideas, and is so handled by different men . . . science and religion are genuine keys for unlocking the world’s treasure house. Neither is…
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